Mongol

[Drunk Monk]

Academy award nominee for foreign. Look it up if you must. I had a kendo master named Temudjin - he was the first rasta I ever got to know.

Cool armor. Awesome scenery. Medieval Mongolian atmosphere is unique. I didn't mind the digital blood. But I fell asleep. In a fight scene, no less. Why are Russian films so damn long?

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Why can't I remember how to spell that word. It's been in the Netflix DVD list since I heard about it a month ago.

[Drunk Monk]

...to have a queue. The queue was imposed on Han Chinese during the Qing as a symbol of subservience. The Qing were the Manchus, the descendants of the Mongols, in case you were wondering where I was going with this.

I'd delete Mongol from your Netflix queue. The more I think about it, the more I disliked it. It had great scenery, decent battles, good acting, but it moves so ploddingly slow, like watching permafrost thawing, and there's many plot turns that make no sense whatsoever. One moment Temudjin is falling through the frozen river ala Never Cry Wolf (not a spoiler - it's in the trailer). The next scene, he's on the shore. How he got there from under the ice alive is never explained. He's only like 10 in that scene too. And that's up in the beginning. It gets worse after that.

There's a heavy metal soundtrack for the credits. Thank Jah. It woke my up from a much needed nappy.

[thatguy]

more here:

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I can just see the "Pan Flute Hero" game where kids are hyperventilating just to keep up with Zamfir...

--tg

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Here is a shirt for ED.

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[El Dingo]

IMDB Link: Mongol

AKA: Genghis Khan - Before He Was Famous

Around the 11th century Asia was crawling with hundreds of small hordes, or hordelets as we now call them. One of these hordelets was led by a powerful warrior. But he was killed. So his son, Temudgin was kicked out to pull himself up by his bootstraps and make a living.

Temudgin tried several occupations, including slave, warrior and performance artist before settling on ruthless chieftan.

This movie tells the story of Ghengis Khan before he got his horde on.

It reminded me a lot of 'Conan the Barbarian'.

Also, the lead actor looks exactly like DM in several scenes.

[Drunk Monk]

been there, done that.
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[El Dingo]

Does 'Search' not search past a certain point in the past?

Searching 'Mongol' just brought up a 'Mulan' thread.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

It's tricky. And, no, I don't know the trick. Just get OCD like DM and you'll remember exactly where you placed your cheese.

[Drunk Monk]

The search has never worked on this forum. But that's okay. It gives Greg and me something to do - sort of an Alzheimer's test...